Sentences with phrase «in billions of light years»

This is a map of the cube of spacetime covered in the new survey, showing the distance to the galaxies in billions of light years.

Not exact matches

Since 2006, Coors Light is the only top - 10 beer in the country to post consistent annual sales growth (see sidebar), and MillerCoors grew revenue 4.3 % in the second quarter of this year to $ 2.2 billion.

The $ 1 billion acquisition last year looks increasingly wise in light of Mr. Ebersman's announcement.

He needs to be left alone to manage his 156 - billion light years domain, the cosmos consisting of billions of galaxies with billions of stars in each galaxy.

Either they necessitate a deceptive «God», e.g. creating starlight «in transit» which means that for some light the star that supposedly sent said light would never have actually existed, or they would cause effect that should be evident but are not, e.g. temporarily fast starlight would effectively cook many things, such as life on earth, if the required light (and attendant gamma radiation) were compressed into a significantly shorter time frame (think of the radiation from the apparent 13 billion years of the universe arriving at the same time, or even over a 1000 years).

Oh, so in the vast known Universe, which reaches out for 15 BILLION light years in all directions, with over 100 BILLION galaxies, containing an average of 100 BILLION stars each, with most of those stars now thought to have multiple planets orbiting around them, you can't imagine that there would be at least ONE little planet SOMEWHERE with the right conditions for life without divine intervention?

For example, the seeming unlimited number of galaxies (with each containing anywhere from an estimated 10 to 500 billion stars) and the precise order that exists within the universe, and the shear distance between stars (an average about 4.2 light years or about 25 trillion miles), has caused some to stop and look in awe.

If you were the creator of a universe 100 billion light years in diameter, that probably is also multi-dimensional as well as eternal, would you hang around trying to impress a group of arrogant primates who a milli - second ago were brachiating among the tress of Africa?

The story of creation then glosses over how he made light travel faster than light in order to make it appear that he had created the world 14 billion years ago when in fact he had created the universe only 6000 years ago.

Spectrographic evidence from light sources billions of light years away would seem to indicate that the persuasive power which maintains these regular patterns of predictability can not be avoided by autonomous activity in the occasions involved even over long periods of time.

To determine the distaces beyond a billion light years, the standard measure IS a theory called «The Hubble Effect» that measures the red shift movement of galaxies in relation to one another.

If you were the creator of a universe 100 billion light years in diameter, would you hang around trying to impress a group of arrogant primates who a miilisecond ago were brachiating among the trees of Africa?

Albany's good news came to light just hours after Cuomo, appearing in Catskill to survey the scene of a barge accident, suggested to reporters that there was no need to rush the overall budget negotiations on the roughly $ 150 billion budget, which should have been completed by the April 1 start of the new fiscal year.

Imagine stepping into a time machine, one that could traverse not only billions of years but also countless light years of space, all in search of life in the universe.

The light from the exploding star, which took 9.4 billion years to reach Earth, fell squarely on one galaxy sitting in one of the Frontier Fields clusters.

Telescopes look back in time; light from the most distant locales travels for nearly the entire 13.8 - billion - year history of the universe.

Advanced LIGO's range extends up to 5 billion light - years in all directions for merging objects about 100 times the mass of the sun, project leader David Shoemaker of MIT says.

That massive group of stars, dubbed SXDF - NB1006 - 2, lies about 13.1 billion light - years from Earth and was the oldest known galaxy when it was discovered in 2012 (a record that has been toppled several times since).

Physicists working with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO), which has twin instruments in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, spotted a burst of gravitational waves from black holes 29 and 36 times as massive as the sun that spiraled into each other 1.3 billion light - years away.

However, because they occur in short bursts and originate in distant galaxies — sometimes even billions of light years from Earth — scientists have not been able to exactly pinpoint what causes them.

In 2001, Charbonneau and astronomer Tim Brown of the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado, used this technique to «sniff» the atmosphere of a huge, broiling planet called HD 209458b, even though it is 150 light - years away — 4 billion times as distant as the mooIn 2001, Charbonneau and astronomer Tim Brown of the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado, used this technique to «sniff» the atmosphere of a huge, broiling planet called HD 209458b, even though it is 150 light - years away — 4 billion times as distant as the mooin Boulder, Colorado, used this technique to «sniff» the atmosphere of a huge, broiling planet called HD 209458b, even though it is 150 light - years away — 4 billion times as distant as the moon.

It also takes a financial toll: The federally funded National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) reports that poorly - aimed, unshielded outdoor lights waste $ 2 billion (17 billion kilowatt - hours) of energy in the U.S. each year.

«Because FRBs like the one we discovered occur billions of light - years away, they help us study the universe between us and them,» says Ravi, who is the R A and G B Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar in Astronomy.

THOUGH telescopes routinely spot galaxies billions of light years away, they may be missing many in our own cosmic backyard.

However, Gale crater, where the Curiosity rover landed, contains fragments of very ancient igneous rocks (around 4 billion years old) that are distinctly light in color, which were analyzed by the ChemCam instrument.

But that and other far - fetched ideas may inspire the ambitious projects necessary to catch a glimpse of the core — a place just 3,950 miles below our feet and yet, in many ways, less accessible than the edge of the visible universe, 13.8 billion light - years away.

Because the galaxy is only 2.5 million light - years from Earth, it is a much bigger target in the sky than the myriad galaxies Hubble routinely photographs that are billions of light - years away.

About 500 million years after the Big Bang, one of the first galaxies in the universe formed, containing stars of about the same mass as the sun — which can live for 10 billion years — as well as lighter stars.

In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.

In another galaxy, a billion or so light - years away, two black holes collided, shaking the fabric of spacetime.

Recent Hubble Space Telescope images of a supernova that exploded 8 billion light - years from Earth (below) is filling in details of what happened during the transition period between deceleration and acceleration.

They burn through their nuclear fuel in mere tens of millions of years, while the lightest stars have lifetimes that span many tens of billions of years.

The two black holes live roughly 3.7 billion light - years away in a quasar, the ferociously bright core of a galaxy lit up by...

Billions of years ago, a heatwave struck the universe, leaving its imprint in the light from distant galaxies.

Four images of the same supernova flashed in the constellation Leo as its light bent around a galaxy sitting about 6 billion light - years away between Hubble and the exploding star, researchers report in the March 6 Science.

Billions of years ago, an iron nucleus forged in another galaxy was flung into space at close to the speed of light — headed for your cells

In a galaxy 8 billion light years away, a supermassive black hole a billion times the mass of the sun is far from home.

Emitted in a distant galaxy when multicellular life was just beginning to populate Earth, the waves traveled at the speed of light for more than a billion years to at last wash over our planet last September, taking just seven milliseconds to traverse the distance between LIGO's twin listening stations in Louisiana and Washington State.

Astronomers spotted the space rocks — plus another two that had been previously cataloged — in images collected as part of the Frontier Fields project, which observed six clusters of galaxies billions of light - years away.

In «Our Place in the Cosmos,» the astronomers Noam I. Libeskind and R. Brent Tully detail the discovery of Laniakea, a supercluster of about 100,000 large galaxies that includes our own Milky Way and spans nearly a half - billion light yearIn «Our Place in the Cosmos,» the astronomers Noam I. Libeskind and R. Brent Tully detail the discovery of Laniakea, a supercluster of about 100,000 large galaxies that includes our own Milky Way and spans nearly a half - billion light yearin the Cosmos,» the astronomers Noam I. Libeskind and R. Brent Tully detail the discovery of Laniakea, a supercluster of about 100,000 large galaxies that includes our own Milky Way and spans nearly a half - billion light years.

The ADFS - 27 galaxy pair is located approximately 12.7 billion light - years from Earth in the direction of the Dorado constellation.

What's in these waves that are coming across 1.3 billion light years of space at the speed of light?

An international team of scientists has pushed the limits of radio astronomy to detect a faint signal emitted by hydrogen gas in a galaxy more than five billion light years away — almost double the previous record.

The X-ray source containing this force - fed black hole, known by its abbreviated name of XJ1500 +0154, is located in a small galaxy about 1.8 billion light years from Earth.

Using the world's largest radio telescope, two astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia have detected the faint signal emitted by atomic hydrogen gas in galaxies three billion light years from Earth, breaking the previous record distance by 500 million light years.

A Hungarian - US team of astronomers have found what appears to be the largest feature in the observable universe: a ring of nine gamma ray bursts — and hence galaxies — 5 billion light years across.

They appear to be at very similar distances from us — around 7 billion light years — in a circle 36 ° across on the sky, or more than 70 times the diameter of the Full Moon.

Using the optical 8.1 - meter Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, astronomers then managed to determine the galaxy's distance: more than 3 billion light - years, as reported in a second paper in the same issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters.

A sudden flare - up observed late last year in a quasar - like object about 3 billion light years away is lending support to the idea that such objects may contain a pair of enormous black holes.

The first is that it is fantastically large; the portion of the universe visible today is a sphere nearly 15 billion light - years in radius, and that, we believe, is just the tip of the iceberg.